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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="install-linux-debian-ubuntu">
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| 4 | <title>Installing <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> from a Debian or Ubuntu Package</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>Download the appropriate package for your distribution. The following example assumes that you are installing to
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| 8 | a 64-bit Ubuntu Xenial system. Use <userinput>dpkg</userinput> to install the Debian package,as follows: </p>
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| 9 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-<varname>version-number</varname>_Ubuntu_xenial_amd64.deb</pre>
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| 10 | <p>The installer will also try to build kernel modules suitable for the current running kernel. If the build process
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| 11 | is not successful you will be shown a warning and the package will be left unconfigured. Look at
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| 12 | <filepath>/var/log/vbox-install.log</filepath> to find out why the compilation failed. You may have to install
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| 13 | the appropriate Linux kernel headers, see <xref href="externalkernelmodules.dita#externalkernelmodules"/>. After
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| 14 | correcting any problems, run the following command: </p>
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| 15 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sudo rcvboxdrv setup</pre>
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| 16 | <p>This will start a second attempt to build the module. </p>
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| 17 | <p>If a suitable kernel module was found in the package or the module was successfully built, the installation
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| 18 | script will attempt to load that module. If this fails, please see <xref
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| 19 | href="ts_linux-kernelmodule-fails-to-load.dita">Linux Kernel Module Refuses to Load</xref> for further
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| 20 | information. </p>
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| 21 | <p>Once <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has been successfully installed and configured, you
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| 22 | can start it by clicking <b outputclass="bold">VirtualBox</b> in your <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> menu or from
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| 23 | the command line. See <xref href="startingvboxonlinux.dita"/>. </p>
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| 24 | </body>
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| 26 | </topic>
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